If it isn’t one communicable, and fairly preventable, disease,it’s another. They rage through day cares, theme parks, workplaces and shopping malls. And yet,Americans resist the vaccinations that would safeguard most of themfrom getting sick.

The Centers for Disease Control had barely updated itsflu season checklist when Disneyland experienced ameasles outbreak. With the often deadly disease snaking its wayaround the Southwest and into Mexico, CDC officials urged thepublic to get a measles vaccination.

CDC officials said 2014 saw the highest number of measlescases in two decades.

Meanwhile, the White House decided it better call a pressconference to make yet one more effort to push for vaccinationagainst the measles.

But, as reported by The Hill’s Justin Sink, the White Housetalking head — press secretary Josh Earnest — was well aware of thecontroversy vaccination creates.

So, as he faced the cameras and bloggers the other day, hecautiously suggested the public could get vaccinated against the measles toavoid catching them.

“Being guided by the science in matters like this is typicallythe right approach,” Sink quoted Earnest as saying. “That's,obviously, what our public health professionals recommend.”

Though Earnest said the science on vaccinations is "reallyclear," he said he didn't want to dispense medical advice, addingthat the president believed “that these kinds of decisions aredecisions that should be made by parents.”

He left the gathered media with words of advice nonetheless,according to The Hill.

“If you're sick, we recommend that you don't get on an airplaneand you don't go to a crowded locations. And that's true of the fluand, you know, of other illnesses as well,” he said. “But thisobviously is an illness that's a little bit more potent than theflu.”